Here are today’s Invitational Tournament contestants:

– Drew Basile, a writer from Birmingham, Michigan;
– Jen Giles, a teacher from Longmont, Colorado; and
– Roger Craig, an applied scientist originally from Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

Jeopardy!

WOMEN // STOCK IT TO ME // COMMON KNOWLEDGE // SONG & BOOK: SAME TITLE // REVERSIBLE WORDS // DOWN IN THE DUMP

DD1 – 800 – SONG & BOOK: SAME TITLE – Don Henley looks back at an old relationship; Roger Kahn looks back at the baseball players of the 1950s (Jen doubled to 2,000.)

Scores at first break: Roger 800, Jen 2,000, Drew 2,200.

Scores entering DJ: Roger 1,200, Jen 2,400, Drew 6,000.

Double Jeopardy!

THE OCCCIDENTAL TOURIST // WRITERS // A SCIENCE BRIEF // LOCKUPS // MOVIE MAGIC // FIRST NAME WORDS

DD2 – 1,600 – A SCIENCE BRIEF – The Cassini-Huygens mission found rippling sand dunes & liquid seas on this moon (Roger took the lead by doubling to 6,400.)

DD3 – 1,200 – WRITERS – Dickens saluted this writer as “my dear sir” but also expressed doubt that it was actually a man behind the name (it wasn’t) (Drew regained first, doubling to 11,200 vs. 7,600 for Roger.)

Roger took the lead on DD2, Drew got it back on DD3, than Roger had the strongest finish to carry first place into FJ at 18,400 vs. 14,000 for Drew and 4,800 for Jen.

Final Jeopardy!

SAINTS – Mentioned several times in a 1599 play, this patron saint of cobblers had a feast day that coincided with the Battle of Agincourt

Roger and Drew were correct on FJ. Roger added 9,601 to advance with 28,001.

Final scores: Roger 28,001, Jen 4,075, Drew 14,000.

Ken’s Korner: During the interview, Jen mentioned one of her preparation tools was J! Archive, and Ken said he never heard of it. I will take that comment with the proverbial grain of salt.

Correct Qs: DD1 – What is “The Boys of Summer”? DD2 – What is Titan? DD3 – Who was George Eliot? FJ – Who is St. Crispin?